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struggle4progress

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Wed Dec-09-09 03:19 PM
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25. ... In an earlier email to the Asheville newspaper, Bothwell explained that the exact wording of the

North Carolina constitution wouldn't apply to him anyway. "I am not 'an avowed atheist' ... I don't 'deny the being of Almighty God.' I simply consider the question of denial or acceptance irrelevant" ...

N.C. law rejects atheists; voters don't
By David Waters
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2009/12/atheist_swears_affirms_oath_in_nc.html

So, although I agree with you that such religious test requirements are unconstitutional, and that there would seems to be no good reason for Bothwell himself to take the position FBaggins suggested in #3 above, nevertheless -- that is exactly the position Bothwell took

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